A series of films awarded at festivals in Cannes, Berlin or Venice will be screened at this year’s Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF), scheduled to take place between June 17 and June 26 in Cluj-Napoca.

Among them is Carla Simón’s Alcarràs, this year’s Golden Bear winner, which follows the story of a family of peach farmers in a small village in Catalonia, and Sebastian Meise’s Great Freedom, the story of a man repeatedly incarcerated over his sexual orientation and the winner of the Un Certain Regard jury award in Cannes in 2021.

The TIFF public can also see Ildikó Enyedi’s The Story of My Wife and Gaspar Noé’s Vortex. Both films were screened at the 2021 Cannes film festival.

Ulrich Seidl’s Rimini will also be screened at TIFF, as will Fernando Léon de Aranoa’s The Good Boss, the winner of six Goya awards this year after receiving 20 nominations, a record-setting number. The film, starring Javier Bardem, won the Goya awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor, among others. 

Audrey Diwan’s L'événement, the film for which French-Romanian actress Anamaria Vartolomei received the Most Promising Actress award at this year’s Cesar Awards, and Louis Garrel’s La Croisade will also be screened for the first time in the country at TIFF 2022.

A Chile-Colombia-Romania co-production, Clare Weiskopf and Nicolas van Hamelryck’s Alis is also part of the TIFF program. The documentary, which focuses on the story of ten young women who reside in a home for girls from the streets of Bogotá, won a Crystal Bear and the Teddy Award at this year’s Berlinale.

Mikhaël Hers’ new film, The Passengers of the Night, and Charlotte Gainsbourg’s Jane, offering a novel perspective of the mother-daughter relation as the filmmaker follows her mother, actress Jane Birkin, will be screened as well. 

The program also includes Selman Nacar’s Between Two Dawns, presented at TIFF’s Transilvania Pitch Stop in 2018, and Michelangelo Frammartino’s Il buco.

Starting April 12 passes for the event are available at Eventbook.ro.

(Photo: Still from The Good Boss, courtesy of TIFF)

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